Digimat-FE
Digitalise materials to accelerate their development based on a deeper understanding
Digimat-FE
Gain in-depth insights of the microscopic behaviour with multiscale Finite Element (FE) analysis
Digimat-FE generates realistic microstructures or reads microstructures from CT-scans to perform multiscale finite element analysis, providing an in-depth-view into composites.
Deep dive into the Digital Materials Laboratory: it’s all about multiscale analysis
Digimat-FE aims at advancing our understanding of the material behaviours to unlock the potential for innovation. From design to post-processing, the end-to-end solution streamlines every step to generate a detailed microstructure, perform accurate finite analysis (powered by Finite Element (FE) and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) solvers) and gain in-depth insights into the microscopic mechanisms that affect the composite response.
It allows you to create 2D and 3D models of a range of microstructures, from reinforced plastics and unidirectional composites to metals, ceramics and foams, that can be solved with a suite of different FEA interfaces and solver technologies for the most effective results. Key analysis tools include local field visualisation, probabilistic distributions and mean homogenised properties.
Value & benefits:
- Optimise material properties to match specific industry requirements
- Combine any types of resin and reinforcement to explore new composite formulations
- Gain an in-depth view and understanding of the composites behaviours
- Analyse effect of defects, damage, fibre/matrix debonding, etc.
- Perform sensitivity analysis to better understand the material behaviour and optimize the microstructure.
Key features:
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Easy generation of realistic microstructures for a wide range of materials
- 2D or 3D
- generic (matrix, inclusion, void, continuous fibre, strand, from external CAD)
- fabric (interlock, orthogonal, braided, non-crimp, DFCA, with different weave patterns)
- lattice (aligned, sparse, double dense sparse, hexagonal, custom infills)
- foam (open or closed cells, random, Kelvin, or custom structures)
- metals (polycrystals, cemented metals)
- geometric microstructures from STL files
- image microstructures from CT-scans
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Internal meshing and solvers (including Fast Fourier Transform solver)
- conforming mesh (tetra)
- non-conforming mesh (voxel)
- mesh cutting (tetra)
- conforming extruded mesh (tetra)
- grid points
- Finite Element (FE) solver
- Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) solver
- external solvers
- multiple CPUs and GPU technology
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Comprehensive post-processing of results
- average field results
- distribution over each phase and over the representative volume element (RVE)
- 3D plots of the field results